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I'm sorry but I don't understand...
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Posted by: cgirl
I don't know why some christian men and woman can't understand this verse: 2Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
God put that verse there for a reason.
Man, my heart is torn apart by what I hear some people go through just for "love". Some people pay too high a price for what little pleasure they get from a dysfunctional relationship. I don't know how many people torture themselves by being with someone who is not saved or backslidden. Are they so needy they settle for less than what God wants them to have? Some people hook themselves up with the scum of the earth, total losers. They dedicate themselves and are loyal to low down, dirty cheats and then have pain upon pain, sorrow upon sorrow. Why not be with someone who is worthy of you? Someone who fears God, who loves God, who loves you just the way you are.
You are a son/daughter of the Most High God, you are a prince/princess! DO NOT settle for nothing less then the best of the best, the cream of the crop. So get some self esteem and patience and wait on God who wants to give us the very best.
We all make mistakes, if you made a mistake in this area in your life, just pick yourself up and start over again just you and God, it's not the end of the world. God can make you pure again. And life will go on with out him or her. Just tell them to take a hike and that you won't be used anymore. Let God bring healing in you. And know that you are wonderful. You are beautiful. You are very special, one of a kind. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Posted by: JeriRose12
AMEN!!! Do you know how Ray Ortland proposed to his wife, Ann? He said: "Magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together." Now, that is awesome! We are not here to take up with any old person. God has someone for us--His perfect choice. Someone we will be in ministry with!!! A preacher I heard today said "Don't let a [member of the opposite sex] be a dream killer." He told young people with a dream to stay away from sex and hold on to the dream. He said Christians should not be "dating around." Christians are to be looking for God's choice for marriage to be their life long partner--ONE person--whom they will be in ministry with.
When I open posts and someone is praying to stay with some guy who is toatlly using them, I don't know what to pray. Some of these people are living together and want God to bless their relatisonship!!! It's really scarey!!! Don't people read the Word, anymore???
1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
3But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5For this you know,[1] that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7Therefore do not be partakers with them. (Ephesians 5:1-7)
Blue is for loyalty: Think loyalty to God.
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. (Matthew 16:24-25)
No-one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. (2 Timothy 2: 5)
9Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[1] nor sodomites, 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Speaking of gaining the world and losing your soul! Who is going to put thier life in danger of hell fire, for some momentary pleasure???
8But the cowardly, unbelieving,[5] abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." (Revelation 21:8)
Excuse me, for not understanding, too. I guess I just don't ignore my Bible enough.
~JeriRose~
Posted by: Dreamweaver
Oh, you guys are good 
Posted by: jedijeb
I agree with the not unequally yoked verses, and I believe You shouldnt marry someone who is not saved if you are saved. I can't say I didn't date an unsaved person, but I have been blessed with seeing her saved which I thank God for everyday. The ones I hurt for are the ones where both were unsaved before marriage and then one becomes saved. There is often times so much hurt placed on the new Christian in that situation and they can't just leave the marriage. If you are a Christian you have the responsibility to seek God's guidance in choosing a mate, some just aren't that strong in Christ to make the right choices. This has been a problem for 2000 years since it was written about back then also and I guess it always will be. Satan will use every device he can to either destroy a marriage or to keep God's children from having a happy life. What he can't have he wants to destroy and in this spiritual war that is raging all around us there will be casualties, we just have to be there to pray for them and help them fight back against Satan.
Posted by: akabezalel
Those verses are not just for marriage! They also apply to EVERY AREA of our lives: Business, Close Friendships, even Church Attendance and Prayer.
You need to use this criteria when you pray for people, don't agree with someone if the thing they are believing for is against God's Word even though they are believers, this is where you absolutely MUST be lead by the Holy Spirit!.
This happens a lot when people are going to pastoral counseling and don't like what the pastor told them they need to do and because of this they are looking for justification for themselves and their actions. This happens a great deal in churches and here on this board. Of course, they paint their story in the best possible light, this is because they are human and walking in the flesh (don't we all from time to time? 
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THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT ALL OF THE MARRIAGE PRAYER REQUESTS ARE WRONG OR MISLEADING!!!
Only the ones who are secretly shifting the facts to get the self-justification they want, and they know who they are and God knows who they are. Listen to what the Spirit of God says about the requests (all requests) and be lead by His knowledge, not by what is written by the requester.
Sorry if this has come across a bit strong, I have been tangled up in this kind of mess more often than I care to think and I hope to help others from getting caught in that particular snare.
Posted by: jedijeb
That is what I believe, be led by the Holy Spirit and even if it sounds wrong to others or ourselves, as long as He is doing the guiding it will be right.
Posted by: babam
This has been really difficult to live with. As soon as I first saw him [my ex] something passed between us. 2 years later I became a real believing christian but I was still naiive. A year later he had been going to church, filled he said with the Holy Spirit, freed from addiction his former family restored [no he wasn't married]. I believed him.
He asked me to marry him, the works.
He attends a get to know Jesus course and gets skin cancer. That gets sorted then its just one problem after another. We still want to marry. Some christians around us say yes we should others say no.
Then Jesus heals my eldest daughters deafness in one ear - a total medical miracle. I see this as a sign. Ok we should be together.
Then I get a word form high up in church, they had a word that jesus would take my daughters life if I didn't leave him. I cried all night and the Lord sent something super brilliant and glowy to comfort me.
Our babe was born. We split up. I couldn't risk my childs life. I had to repent about it regularly to different people in the church. And yes I did repent to the Lord, He was a lot more forgiving. We are to some extent still treated differently and some still look down on us.
I am careful about people now, even those professing to be christians.
The Lord is still with me and lets me know in advance if I will see my ex.
So if youre reading this and thinking of being yoked with unbelievers, do yourself a favour and save yourself and the other person a lot of pain - walk away, better still, run.
Posted by: cgirl
Amen babam. I learned this the hard way myself. I am a single mother of 2 (happily single now since '96). The first year away from my ex I wanted to start again with someone else right away. I mean the lonliness was aweful, I thought I was going to die! But as I prayed, the Lord brought a healing in me. I said in my prayers, Lord I'm lonely. He said well, be lonely for me. He said, start chasing after me and I'll take it away. I felt his love when he asked me for my attention like that. It was like he was jealous, he want's to be first in our heart and in our lives. Amen.
Posted by: JeriRose12
I was not talking about walking out on marriages. Once you are married, it is a whole different arena. I am talking about people who are with a boyfriend/girlfriend and don't want to lose them even though they are a jerk. I am telling them to get out of those relationships while the getting's good. Once they are married, they are in it for life. At least that's the vow they made. If the person is breaking their heart now, how will they like being married to that person? Marriage is FOR LIFE. It's not a "try it on and if I don't like it, discard it," situaiton. Too many people just are not clear on what the Bible says. Or they just want what they want in spite of what the Bible says. They word their prayer request in such a way as to indicate that they are confused (meaning, "I know what the Bible says, but I want what I want.") or that they are just too "in love" with this person to ever lose them--no matter how they are treating them. It's co-dependency, when we should only be dependent on God. I am standing for a whole bunch of marriages to be healed, where the mate is straying, a total jerk, living in sin and all kinds of things like that. So I am not saying those people should give up on their marriages. I am only saying don't get into a relaitonship with someone who is not a Christian and definitely don't be comitting fornication. Marriage is God's plan and Christians should not be divorcing. In many of these stiuations, the mate is not saved or is backslidden, so I am praying they are saved or return to the Lord, so their marriage will work. One marriage I am standing for, is being restored:
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God does not want us tearing aprat what He put togehter and in Malachai he said he hates divorce, so we must stand for restoration of marriages, no matter what the straying mate is up to.
~JeriRose~
Posted by: cgirl
Of course that's what I was talking about as well. Dating. Not marriages.